I was at the checkout of one of the discount stores the other day and there was a young couple with a baby in front of me. I thought what a nice family and that the mother was rather attractive. Then they started talking Polish. I have met a few Eastern Europeans that have moved here to work and no doubt about it many of them have a work ethic that would put our own dole scroungers to shame. The downside is that they provide employers with a pool of cheap and expendable labour that means that they don't have to offer locals decent paying work.

There are reportedly around 6,000 Poles in Inverness. How many local people are out of work?

It must be amazing to be able to go to a country, do a fairly low skilled job with no risk to ones personal safety, and be able to take that money out of the country, go back to your own after a few years and be set up for life.

What the hell am I doing working away for f all? All the while this country gets worse. People who are actually British are the forgotten ones.

It must be amazing to be able to go to a country, do a fairly low skilled job with no risk to ones personal safety, and be able to take that money out of the country, go back to your own after a few years and be set up for life.

What the hell am I doing working away for f all? All the while this country gets worse. People who are actually British are the forgotten ones.

Yes.
The wages they are paid here are impossible to live on, for a local man trying to keep a family.
Take those same wages back to the east and it is like a kings ransom.

No wonder Poland is becoming a strong economy.
Built on money exported from the west.
Imagine what kind of house you get in Britain for £500,000.
Imagine what you would get in Poland for £500,000.

How many migrants, legal or illegal do we have in the land.
How much of their salary is exported.
Not spent in Britain, in British shops and businesses.

Let's say 1,000,000 migrants are exporting wages.
Even if they only send home £10 a week, that is an export of £10,000,000 a week.
Over ten years.

The cumulative effect is massive.

If business is to run the NHS, then we can expect more sharp practice.
The far east complains that they train Nurses, only to have them lured to Britain by relatively high wages.

Local people will avoid the nursing profession, because it is poorly paid by local standards. Mortgage payments, food and utilities...

So, the people we call "Dole Scroungers" are being asked to work at a disadvantage because they are not exporting wages to some tropical paradise, that they can retire to in 10 or 20 years, with a pretty nest egg.

(And you wondered why those Philipino nurses look at you like you are an idiot)